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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-07
RAILROADS.
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CENTRAL RAILROAD.
SAVANNAH, GA, April II, 1881.

SAVANNAH, Ga, April II, 1887.
ON and after this date passenger trains will
" run as Daily unless marked 4, which are
Daily except Sunday.
is SO minutes slower than Savannah city time.
Lv Savannah 1000 am S:20p m $40 m
Ar Millen ....... 1895 p m 1903 p m S:45 |, m
Ar Augusta. 4:45 pm 6:15 am
Ar Macon. ........ 4:50 p m 800 m
Ar Atlanta. ....... 900 pm 7:20 am
Ar Columbus -. $50 m 3;02pm
Ar Montgomery. 700 m
Ar ElIfaula. ..... $3.50 IN
Ar Albany ..... 1908 D m 1880 q IN
Passengers for Sylvania, Sandersville, Wrights-
vile, Milledgeville and Eatonton should take
1000 a m train.
Passengers for Thonaston Carrollton, Perry
Fort Gaines Talbotton, Buena Vista, Blakely
and Clayton shonld take 500 p m train.
Lv Millen. ........ 1885 p m 11:15 p m $40 a m
Lv Augusta. .......1020 m $3.50 p m
Lv Macon. ........ $3.50 m 1880 m
Lv Atlanta ..... 6:35 NJ ESQ p m
Lv Columbus .....10:20 p IN 11:15 m
Lv Montgomery 7:l5 p m 7:40am
Lv Ellfaula. 1049 m
Lv Albany. $3.50. 4:5o m 1897 pm
Ar Savannah. BOO p m 5:55 m sos q m
Sleeping cars on all night passenger trains be-
tween Savannah and Augusta, Savannah and
Macon, Savannah and Atlanta Macon and
Columbus.
Train No SO, leaving Savannah at $50 p M
will stop regularly at Guyton, but at no other
point to put off passengers between Savannah
and Millen. Train No. 81 arriving at Savannah
at $3.50 N, will not stop between Mien and Sa-
vannah to take on passengers
Connections at Savannah with Savannah,
Florida and Western Railway for all points in
Florida.
Tickets for all points and sleeping car berths
sale at city office, No 20 Bull street, and depot
office 30 minutes before departure of each train
G. 4. WHITEHEAD,
General Passenger Agent.
J. G. SHAW, Ticket Agent.
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City MARSHAL OFFICE,
SAVANNAH, April 23d 1857.
'INHE City Treasurer has placed in my hands
Il Real Estate Executions for 1896, Privy Vault
Executions for 1856 Stock in Trade and other
personal property executions for 1855, and Spe-
cific or License Tax Executions for 1887, com.
manding me 70 make the money on said writs
by levy and sale OF the defendants property or
by other lawful means. | hereby notify all per-
sons In default that the tax and revenIe ordi-
nance will he promptly enforced il payment is
not made at my office without delay
Office hours from II a. N. 10 2P. N.
ROBT. J. WADE,
City Marshal.
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QUARANTINE NOTICE.

OFFICE HEALTH OFFICER,
SAVANNAH, April 5th, 1887.
Notice is hereby given that the Quarantine
Officer is instructed not TO deliver letters to YES
sells which are not subjected TO quarantine de
tention, unless the name of consignee and state
ment that the vessel is ordered to some other
port appears upon tho face of the envelope
This order is made necessary in consequences of
the enormous bulk of drumming letters sent to
the station for vessels which are TO arrive
j. T. MCFARLAND, NJ. D.,
Health Of1cer
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RAILROADS.
Savannah, Florida { WesteFnRal1

IAN trains on this road are RIM T., .
STANDARD Time. " cel
ImmE CARD IN EFFECT DECFNrppn
Il Passenger trains on this road VIII K K 5,
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South Florida Railroad.
Central Standard Time.

ON and after SUNDAY, March 20, 1887, trains
" will arrive and leave as follows:
*Daiy. tDaily except Sundays, tDaily ex-
cept Mondays
Lon Gnnf ford
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Stops at all regular stations. Pullmn
sleeping cars to and from Jacksonville and d
vannah. Pullman buffet cars via Waycross Il
Macon, between Jacksonville and ChattanoOn
Also, through passenger coaches between Jack
sonville and Chattanooga.
Pullman sleeping cars to and from Barlow AM
Savannah via Gainesville
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Pullman buffet cars to and from .JacLSo
md New York, to and from WaycrosS sand and
Orleans via Pensacola. VIII
EAST FLORIDA EXPRESS

Pullman buffet cars to and from Jacksonril
and Louisville via Thomasville, Albany, Nan:
gomery and Nashville.
AIRANV EYppFcC
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THE following resolution was adopted by the
i CITY Council of Savannah at meeting held
NAV a 1887 FRANK L. REBARER,
- y llerl of Council
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-03-05

help, saying he could hold out no longer.
Again there was no assistance. "Persevere,
said the commanding general. He did SO,
till fourth of his men lay dead, dying and
wounded upon tho field. When the left and
center were safe and Asboth, Gen. Curtis
and later Sigel himself, pressed to Carr's aid,
they found him fighting on still, with shat,
tered army, and tho ground for a mile strewn
with his dead aud wounded.
The fighting was renewed hotly as ever for
a time and Asboth was wounded. Then
night fell, and both armies bivouacked upon
the field with the dead and dying all about
them.
In the morning of March s, there was more
lighting around Elkhorn tavern. The force
Of both armies was concentrated there.
Sigel's men with several heavy batteries bore
the brlnt Of it, Gen. Davis opened cross
fire on the Confederate left. Cannon thunder
and iron hnil filed the air with terror, till at
last the Confederates could endure it no
longer Their batteries were planted upon
the hills of Pea Ridge. They turned to fly,
and Sigels men were dashing up the hills
after them. 1t was a picturesque sight
Curtis says in his report:
"The upward movement Of the gallant
Thirty-sixth Illinois, with its dark blue line
vi men anu It's BleuiillDB DdgOHeIS, nUtuuiiy
rose from base to summit, where it dashed
forward, driving and scattering the enemy
from these commanding heights"
So ended the battle of Pea Ridge II was
not q victory for either side, but it ended the
fighting in that part of Arkansas and Mis-
souri, Il was fought in corner near the
border line of three states, Missouri, Arkan-
sas, Kansas and the Indian Territory. Van
Dorm encamped with his mon eight miles
from the battle field, and buried his dend I'M
der n flag of truce. Then he went his way
south of Boston mountains, getting off
with nearly all his baggage. The loss on
each side was about coo. Both armies had
had enough Of fighting for time. Curtis
encamped at KeitsviHe 10 rest and care for
his men,
Pixies Indians tomahawked their fallen foes
and scalped and mutilated them. A Confed-
crate officer, in letter TO The Richmond
Wing, declared that he saw the Texans doing
the same thing. On the other hand, Van
Dorm charged that some of SigeTs men muir.
dered several prisoners of war in cold blood.
| Ii must be remembered that Pea Ridge was :
specimen Of border warfare.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-03-05

In less than month the Princess of
Wales will complete her AID year. Her
royal highness remains one of the young
est looking women of her age in England,
despite married life that has not been
all sugar plums and coffee. During the
last year or two, however, the princess
has, regretably enough, aged somewhat,
as those wh) know her most intimately
and love her best have been forced to
admit. Time is tracing lines about her
kindly eyes, and her neck, that sure
chronicle Of a woman's age, has its dis
agreeable little tale to tell; but these little
things detract nothing from the magnetic
charm of her presence, and it is a satisfac-
ton to know that she makes as good a
portrait as ever-a satisfaction, because
it is by means of her photographs that
the princess is principally known to the
common people.
The princess birthday will be cele-
hrated by ball to the Sandringham
tenants, whose ladies are already scour-
ing the country for appropriate dress in
which to meet her royal highness. Necks
and shoulders and arms are being nightly
inspected before the mirror in their
owners anxiety to know whether they
will be sufficiently presentable for barring
to the critical gaze of royalty. A great
trade is being done b. the Norfolk
chemists in skin washes and blood mix
lures. A revival in this branch of their
business occurs about this time annually,
we believe.-London Letter.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-03-05
u. s. Grant as a Farmer.

When Capt. Grant returned from
Oregon, where he had resigned his COM
mission, his father-in-law presented his
wife with sixty acres of land and three
negroes-two men and woman. Capt
Grant went to work in good earnest, and
with his two negro men dug cellar,
hauled the stones for the walls, stoned 1t
up, cut and hauled the logs with which
the house was built, and then split the
shingles with which it was rooted. At
the raising his neighbors turned out to
help him, and in due time he was the &C.
cupant of his own house.
His first occupation was to clear field,
and he was certainly an adept at chopping
wood. As the winter came on he hauled
this wood into ST. Louis, and had, OF
course, good team, bay and gray,
which he boosted could draw heavier
load than any other horses In the settle
ment. At first his neighbors thought II
was only boast, but after going along
the road with him with lighter loads they
found that he was an authority on horses.
He never would ride, though, on his load,
saying that ''the team has enough to draw
without carrying lazy driver"
His first crops were corn, wheat potatoes
and few garden vegetables. He raised
200 bushels of potatoes to the acre, and II
was his boast that with his team hi
hauled seventy bushels Of wheat which
he had raised to st. Louis in one load
Wearing pair of old blue army trousers
tucked into high, heavy boots, fianne
shirt, an old undress blue sack coat with
the military buttons replaced by plair
ones, and SLOUGH hat which turned vi
before and down behind, he did not mucf
resemble gentleman farmer" Tit
guests at the Planters house used Il
stare little when he was invited in Il
dinner with old comrades, toward whom
his heart warmed always
On one occasion an officer who hat
served with him, visiting st. Louis, drov'
out to see him and found him in hi
wheat field in his shirt sleeves leading
three other men who, like himself, wer,
swinging cradles. But the land was poo
and the crops did not prove remunerative
To aid him in supporting his family HI
undertook the collection Of accounts TO
some of his neighbors who had sold thei
vegetables on credit to different parties ii
the city, but he was not successful in dun
ning.-Ben: Perley Poore.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-03-05

But what should we do with the thugs
sluggers, assasslns-men who revel In
blood and wounds and DEATH
This:
Let the United States government, in
conjunction with the state governments,
buy an island in the Pacific ocean, guard
it with gunboats, and thereto send the
great host of murderous scoundrels who
have been condemned to the scaffold, who
have been sentenced for life to the peni-
Tertiary for bloodshed who Turk and lie
in wait in our cess pools and slime pits
with revolver and dagger; all who are
known to the police as dangerous char
acters.
Let all rape devils be cent there, and
all who spit upon and trample the eternal
laws of God and man under foot.
"They will kill each other" you may
protest.
Let them kill
You. nor /, nor any of us will be re.
sponsible for that. Our government will
not be responsible for our blood.
The better element that is in all men
will assert itself in the felon community,
and in time they will attain state Of
civilization equal to their own.
In mercy, let us do this, remembering
that the environments and ancestry of
these scoundrols were not the same as
ours, and their responsibility is many de-
grees less than our own.-Wil Hubbard
Herman in Chicago Journal.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-03-05

gets its name. II Is also sometimes called tho
battle of Elzhorn tavern. from house In
the eastern part OF the mountain group
In the map the black, broken lines 10 the
northward indicate the Confederate troops,
the open ones little south Of them the
Federals by skillful movement Van
Dorm had thanked Curtis ON the night of
March and gained hisrear. This threatened
TO cut of Curtis communication with Spring
field, Mo-, and his supplies. The aspect was
black enough.
Con Franz Sigel distinguished himself hon
orably in a skirmish on March 6. His camp
was tho most westerly of Curtis forces, being
near Bsntonville which appears on the map.
Van Dorm passed through that town on his
way northward to get in Curtis rear. By
sldllfully covering his right flank with n cav
airy movement Sige managed to get Off with
his whole supply train and convey il to Sugar
creek. About 600men and five pieces of light
artillery were behind at Bentonville, and in
moment they were surrounded with Confed-
crate cavalry and infantry. sige himself
was fortunately with them, however, having
staid with the rear guard. He handled the
brave 600 so sliillfully, now fighting. now re-
treating, always nearer TO Curtis and Pea
Ridge, that he managed to bring them nearly
oil Off In safety, over distance of ten miles
Sigel is now United States pension agent at
New York.
Curtis's front was TO the south, from which
direction he expected the enemy 70 come
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-03-05

Halleck's orders to Curtis had been to keep
the enemy south of Boston mountains But
Emall detachments of his troops had been left
us guards here and there along the route, as
he followed after Price, till his army had be-
come stretched out very thin. They had
marched into Arkansas travelling at the rate
of twenty miles day, an extraordinary
march under the circumstances. Curtis
force was much smaller than the REINFORCED
Confederate army. Curtis therefore fell back
north from the neighborhood of Boston
mountains and took position nearer to Mis-
souri,, at Bentonville. He had retreated from
Fayetteville. Van Dorm followed and the
Confederate army became in turn the pursuer.
Curtis resolved to dispose his forces about
Sugar creek, near Bentonville, and await the
battle which he saw must come
Until he reached Sugar creek, however, he
was not aware of Van Dorn's arrival in the
Confederate camp. II made things look
shaky for his little army ., 600 against Il, 600
but Curtis did not weaken. 1t was too late
to run, il he had wanted TO.
The reader will see from the map tho dispo-
sition Of the forces on each side. Sugar creek
flows first westward through mountain de
lle, then northward, skirting a clump Of
mountains. The westerly portion OF TIN
clump Il called Pea Ridge. Thence the BATH
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-03-05
For Humanltarians to Think Oyor.


If any one will take the trouble to look
at facts as shown by statistics, 1t will be
found at once that there are four boys
needing the care of tho state to one girl.
This can be readily proved by the expo
rience of all the societies above alluded to,
by the reports Of state schools elsewhere
and by records of the courts AS there
are probably as many girls as boys born
into the world, one naturally seeks u req.
son for this state Of things, which is easily
found in the following clauses; First in
case of death or disaster to parents, friends
and relatives are always more ready to
take the girls than the boys.
Girls are more easily controlled, more
helpful in the house, and 1t is common
experience that when family is left desti-
tute the neighbors will offer homes to the
girls while the boys are left to shift for
themselves. Secondly, event in poor fami-
lies more safeguards are thrown about
girls.
A mother who will let her small boy 10
or IL years spend his entire time out of
school and up to Top. m. loafing about the
streets will keep the girl of the same age
carefully ut home, helping about the house
under her own SUPERVISION SO that while
the boy becomes 4 vagrant and she soon
loses control of lin, the girl grows up
hard working and respectable and need
ing no outside care. Chicago Tribune.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-03-05

The surprise was complete. Not till the
morning of March z, did Curtis discover
what his enemy was up to. Then with the
utmost haste he wheeled his men about and
changed rear to 'front.' and stretched his army
in line of battle across Pea Ridge. Var
Dorn's force was twice as large as his OWL
and included Indians and border Texans.
Curtis battle line extended east and W st
across Pea Ridge between three and fur
miles from Sugar creek to Elkhorn tavern.
With this hastily changed Federal front, the
two armies faced each other like this:
Confederates on tho north, Federals on the
south:
Mccullough, Mcintosh, Price.
Gross Timber Hollow.
Sigel, Asboth, Davis. Carr.
The names are those OF Van Dorn's and
Curtis division commanders. Gen. Alexander
Asboth had charge of Curtis cavalry and
artillery. Gross Timber Hollow was deep
and difficult ravine, covered with fallen trees
between the two armies. Through this hollow
they had to reach each other
Col. Osterhaus, OF Chicago, opened the
fight by nn attack on Van Dorn's center
at 1890 in the morning, March Z. Just as he
commenced this movement word was hastily
brought to Curtis that his pickets had been
driven in.
So the battle was begun. Soon there was
tremendous fighting The woods swarmed
with Confederates, who seemed to spring from
the ground. Carrs division, on the extreme
right, had been heavily attacked, and Oster-
haus was driven back. Curtis had ordered
Gen. Davis to the relief OF Carr on tine rignr
but Osterhaus' men came flying back upon
the center The order to Davis was counter.
manded, and he was told to stay and helI
Osterhaus He quickly changed his line Of
march under fire. Very shortly Gen. Davis
found himself and Osterhaus fighting McCul.
loch, Mcintosh, Pike and all Pixies Indians,
with the poet and John Ross at tho head OF
them. Back he and Osterhaus wavered, and
then gathered strength and advanced again.
They swayed back and forth in storm OF
shet All at once the Eighteenth Indiana
come sweeping down upon the flank and rear
Of tho Confederate center with ball and
,ayonet. 1t settled the fortune Of the day
then. The Confederates broke and fed
Both Gems. McCulloch and Mcintosh fell
MORALLY wounded. Their forces tried to re-
form, but Sigel came up with two batteries
of heavy artillery and it was all over.
Then Sigel moved over to the Federal right
to help Carr That day Carr had fought
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-03-05

which finally, Including the resinforccments
added from time 10 time, amfanted 10 l2,-
O03 mon. Curtis was an Ohio man, a West
Point graduate, and no had been colonel IN
the Mexican war. He had been a congress
man from Iowa. and lived in that state when
tho civil war broke out.
An instructive part OF war history Is got
from reading the correspondence and the re-
ports In the government archives. Nearly
all tho generals In the field constantly beg tho
department commanders for re-enforcements,
and are answered that re-enforcements are
being forwarded as fast as possible.
In Halleclfs instruction 10 Curtis he con-
stantly urges tho latter TO keep his men 20
gether, and not let the enemy fight him in
detail. "Throw out your cavalry carefully
says HaleclI, 'lilse fingers to the hand, 50 that
they can be drawn In on thu main body"
Curtis, in one Of his letters, declare. that he
inust have cavalry horses, 400 new sets Of ar
tillery harness and 10000 pairs OF pants. ="
Halleck answers back that pants will be
sent" but bs cannot spare any horses
Missouri and Arkansas were the scene of
the most desperate guerrilla fighting Of the
war, and this fact Is also reflected in Curtis
letters. He tells Col. Clark Wright: "There
Is great set OF rogues about Keitsville and
hope you will find and arrest and send back
the most of them. Another of Curtis orders
is very strict In regard to protection of pri-
vate property He win not permit houses to
be entered, unless for spies, arms or soldiers.
"Restrain your troops from acts Of cruelty
and folly" he directs Col. Wright
Gen. Price wintered at Springfield, getting
recruits and supplies. February II, Curtis
began his march against Price, As he APP
preached, Price retreated south, and finally
went over the border into Arkansas. He
camped at place called Gross Hollows.
Curtis cavalry followed In close pursuit
Price retreated hastily, leaving number of
sick and considerable amount of commits
sary stores behind him. He burned his bar
racks at Cross Hollows
Near this place occurred one of those out
RACES Of the war which all must regret now
Some Of Prices provisions were left at ham
let called Mud Town. Some Confederate
officers, before they abandoned these, scat
tered poison over them. Federal officers AMI
men following OH found the provisions, ate
of them and sickened and died. Who per-
petrated the act has never been exactly ascer-
tanned But it shows what warfare in Mis-
souri, and Arkansas meant In those days.
Price continued retreating till be came to
Boston mountains. Look 1n tho map and
you win see spur of the Ozark range ex.
tending into the northwest corner of Arkan-
sas, about fifty miles south Of che border.
This Is tho Boston mountains, stretch of
hills 1000 feet high.
Gen. Earl Van Dorm Ind been recently ap.
pointed to the command of the Confederate
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-03-05

EARL VAN DORM, Jake cOfHHluUu. no
From Lossngs civil War reached camp ut
In American Boston mountains
March 2, 1862 A salute of forty guns was
fired to welcome him, and he addressed tho
troops. de issued a proclamation to this
effect:
"Soldiersl behold your leader He comes
to show you the way to glory and immortal
renown. He comes to hurl back the minions
of the despots at Washington, whose ignor-
ance, RIGHTEOUSNESS and brutality are equaled
only by their craven natures. The
flag Of our country is waving on the southern
borders Of Missouri, planted there by my
hands, under authority from our chief magis.
trate. Shall it wave there in melan-
choly loneliness, as a fall leaf in our primeval
forests, or shall its beautiful field and bright
stars flaunt in the breeze over tho bright bat
talions of Arkansas, of Texas and Of Louisi-
ana, as they are marshaling to do battle with
Missouri for victory, for honor and for indie
pendencel Awake, young men Of Arkansas.
and arml Beautiful maidens CT Louisiana,
smile not on the craven youth who may lin
ger by your hearth when the rude blast Of
war is sounding in your ears Texas chiv-
airy, to arms"
Price had not rotreated to Boston mountains
because he did not mean to fight. He wished
to gain time for Reinforcement and also n
favorable position for battle. He was joined
by Gen. McColloch and by Albert Pike with his
Indians On the morning Of March 5, Gen
Van Dorm moved forward at the head of
about $4,000 troops, under Gems, Price, Nc
Culloch, Mcintosh and Pike.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-03-05
No. 60. the Slayer.

"The oldest locomotive now in use any
where near Chicago" remarked rail-
roader, sis No. 60 on the Illinois Central,
still making regular trips down the road
She has been in use thirty-three years
II is estimated that in that time she has
travelled 1,G50,000 miles, or equal to
sixty-six times around the globe. She
has hauled passenger trains, freight
trains, special trains, pay cars, gravel
trains and done switching. She has been
in several accidents, but was never badly
damaged. She has killed her man half
a dozen times. The average life of O
locomotive is zen or twelve years, and SO
you can see that old No. so is a slayer. I"
Chicago Helald.